Classic Video Thread (pre-2008)

[Marvin Dillweed 74]

WVVA clip from 1989:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO10NNUxVYg

 

and 1990. Despite the title, this is actually a news open.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3zXFOZqOs

 

There are other videos of the station on the YouTube channel.

[TexasTVNews 1378]

KRIS 6 News - Last Segment (NBC The Place To Be Close) 5/25/92

 

KIII 3 Eyewitness News at 10PM (2/24/1992)

[Samantha 2902]

It's not often that ragtime music features in a news promo, but it did...

 

[WWUpdate 1292]

A profile of Ron Magers shortly after he had moved from KSTP to WMAQ:

 

[tw-804 194]

WTCN (now KARE; Minneapolis- St. Paul): NewsCenter 11 Weekend Report (Jan. 16, 1983; ID & open starts at 1:23)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TwFvukO-uQ

 

WWBT (Richmond, VA): 12 News at 6 from August 7, 1993. The top story was the aftermath of the tornado that hit Colonial Heights and the Old Towne area of Petersburg (my hometown).

 

[Samantha 2902]

WEAU's first ever 5pm newscast, 35 years ago today:

 

[Ntropolis 599]

WVEC from 1988... including an 11pm open I've never seen before! I think this open was used from 1988-1990

 

[WAVY 10 Fan 233]

WVEC from 1988... including an 11pm open I've never seen before! I think this open was used from 1988-1990

 

 

Just saw it and was about to post that video as well (the cut of Turn to News used here sounds like the "standard" version instead of what WVEC used before and after this period).

[plnewsfan 9]

Don't know why, but this video shows Bloomberg TV in 1996:

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[ChesapeakeTV 312]

A full newscast from WROC from late 1992, with the Otis Conner theme in the open:

 

[Samantha 2902]

It feels like every reporter made it into this WWNY open from 1985!

 

[ChesapeakeTV 312]

It certainly seems like it...complete with a cut of the We've Got The Touch package I certainly wouldn't have expected to hear in a news context.

 

Speaking of WWNY, this little ditty of a theme ducked under the radar...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj_JG1PrGb0

 

These graphics were also used with

two years earlier...and it's pretty obvious here that they were designed around that theme.

[WWUpdate 1292]

A historical compilation of news opens from ORF in Austria, starting in 1955 (updated):

 

 

Note the Network Music production track ("Dignity").

[Samantha 2902]

In 50fps, no less! Now that's the way you upload old video.

 

And WWOR in 1988 with its noon news. You've seen the matching 10pm open before:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upcRzXef-2g

[ChesapeakeTV 312]

The irony is that clips that say they're in 50/60 FPS and are actually in 50/60 FPS are incredibly rare. That Zeit im Bild montage is a good example - most, if not all of the actual videos are in 30 FPS...

[Samantha 2902]

The irony is that clips that say they're in 50/60 FPS and are actually in 50/60 FPS are incredibly rare. That Zeit im Bild montage is a good example - most, if not all of the actual videos are in 30 FPS...

 

True, maybe only a couple of videos reaped the benefits.

 

 

Speaking of Flint, where is this WNEM 1986 close from? (They went and trimmed out the open, of course.) Sounds like the VTS "Looking Out For You" pack to me.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=N5ZubvXeyn4;t=830

[bixpchiphead 105]

True, maybe only a couple of videos reaped the benefits.

 

 

Speaking of Flint, where is this WNEM 1986 close from? (They went and trimmed out the open, of course.) Sounds like the VTS "Looking Out For You" pack to me.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=N5ZubvXeyn4;t=830

 

It was

[ToriElectra 292]

In 50fps, no less! Now that's the way you upload old video.

 

And WWOR in 1988 with its noon news. You've seen the matching 10pm open before:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upcRzXef-2g

Never saw that before. It also make you wonder when exactly in 1988 they decided to ditch that set and decamp to the newsroom until the UPN era (I've heard it's because they needed studio space for things like Steampipe Alley).

[PelicanGuy 117]

Found this newscast from November 1980...right after the election that Reagan won. Check out the open. Never heard nor seen that open before. I did send it to NMSA.

 

[Samantha 2902]

The opens are heavily clipped, but KSAZ and KNXV in 1995!

 

[ChesapeakeTV 312]

Remember

? And

featuring the corresponding open?

 

Said open has surfaced in the clear - even during a strike against the station, no less.

 

The channel also has

from WTVJ, also in 1980.

[10Viewer 338]

WTHR from 1986 with open about 2:00 in with "People You Can Count On" a la WBNS:

 

[TexasTVNews 1378]

WTVD/Raleigh-Durham, NC - 6PM 5/27/1983 - In memory, in honor and in tribute to the late, great Larry Stogner.

[Breaking News 839]

WEAR-TV Channel 3 in Pensacola, FL (1994) open

 

WEAR-TV (1989) Newscast

[Samantha 2902]

No opens, but some Casper, Wyoming news clips from 1990/91. That "GWN News" set!